Gourmet festivals Aquitaine

Each year in April, the municipality of Saint-Caprais celebrates pork, designated in the santongeaise language by «goraille». Traditional clothes, old cuisine, patois poitevin saintongeais: everything is gathered to celebrate the land with a word of conviviality. This essential and emblematic feast of the Gabaye culture is the opportunity to reunite people and onlookers around a local traditional meal. Discovery around «pig cooking» workshops. Show, animations on the theme of the farm, bandas, concerts.

The White Queen gives you an appointment to Etauliers on the occasion of the sixteenth edition of Blayais asparagus festival. The taste is in honour with some gastronomic and wine exhibitors, co-op visits, demonstration of recipes and workshops with many chefs and always awareness of sustainable development with his village, and the labelling of responsible demonstration by the General Council.

The fat markets, a popular and gastronomic tradition well anchored in the Landes. From April to October, local producers offer their flagship products directly on the markets: foie gras, whole geese and ducks, gizzards, confits, duck breasts... Among the best known fat markets, head for Dax (Saturday morning, from November to March), Villeneuve-de-Marsan (Wednesday morning, from October to April), Peyrehorade (Wednesday morning, from November to mid-March), Mont-de-Marsan (Tuesday and Saturday morning) or Saint-Sever (Saturday morning). Not to be missed!

Once again, Corsica invites itself to Bordeaux for a week. On the program of festivities dedicated to the Isle of Beauty, meetings with about twenty producers, tastings of all kinds, evenings, laughter, sharing, creative discoveries, as well as concerts. For more information on the program, visit the event organizer's Facebook page: www.facebook.com/acantina.

To close the summer season, Marmande is planning a major gourmet celebration around its red star. The former Tomato Fiesta, now known as the Fêtes de Marmande, returns to its roots! On the menu: two lively days with a large farmers' market, cooking competitions and gourmet stands featuring tomatoes in all their forms. Of course, this festival also involves the Confrérie de la Tomate de Marmande, a PGI tomato with a new label. The knights of the Confrérie de Tomate de Marmande will be inducted into the order, as is only fitting.

The combination of foie gras (60%) surrounded by fine pork stuffing and truffles (3%) is even tastier as it ages. Good news! Because the 2020 edition of this gastronomic event having been cancelled, 2021 will be an even better year for connoisseurs. The promotion of this product, which is several hundred years old and bears the name of the city, is ensured by the pâté brotherhood, in red and green costume. The annual competition is open to professionals from the Dordogne.

In the asparagus capital of the region, some thirty exhibitors liven up this regional festival that kicks off the season. Asparagus takes pride of place, along with flowers, strawberries, honeys and local meats.

The farmers' market includes a velouté meal. At the end of the afternoon, it's time for the World Bundling Championship. The rules of the game: each bundle must weigh 1 kg, be tied with 2 rubber bands, and none must be broken. The day ends with a giant asparagus omelette. Entertainment and bandas. Ideal for families.

An initiative of the 4 Vents du Bouglonnais association and retired bakers. In 1960, Ivan, the last baker in the village to make wood-fired bread, closed up store, and the smell of freshly baked bread ceased to hang over Bouglon. In 2015, bread and heritage enthusiasts restored the village's communal oven, and since then, a bread festival has been held in Bouglon in early summer. On the program: bread-making and baking in the communal oven, a "auberge espagnole" at lunchtime, and the opportunity to bake your own dishes in the oven.